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SUBMITTER: Zein J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6995013 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zein Joe J Gaston Benjamin B Bazeley Peter P DeBoer Mark D MD Igo Robert P RP Bleecker Eugene R ER Meyers Deborah D Comhair Suzy S Marozkina Nadzeya V NV Cotton Calvin C Patel Mona M Alyamani Mohammad M Xu Weiling W Busse William W WW Calhoun William J WJ Ortega Victor V Hawkins Gregory A GA Castro Mario M Chung Kian Fan KF Fahy John V JV Fitzpatrick Anne M AM Israel Elliot E Jarjour Nizar N NN Levy Bruce B Mauger David T DT Moore Wendy C WC Noel Patricia P Peters Stephen P SP Teague W Gerald WG Wenzel Sally E SE Erzurum Serpil C SC Sharifi Nima N
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20200113 4
Asthma resistance to glucocorticoid treatment is a major health problem with unclear etiology. Glucocorticoids inhibit adrenal androgen production. However, androgens have potential benefits in asthma. <i>HSD3B1</i> encodes for 3β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase-1 (3β-HSD1), which catalyzes peripheral conversion from adrenal dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) to potent androgens and has a germline missense-encoding polymorphism. The adrenal restrictive <i>HSD3B1</i>(1245A) allele limits conversion, wher ...[more]